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JD Vance Couch Cushion Story Hoax

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JD Vance Couch Cushion Story Hoax, also known as J. D. Vance Hillbilly Elegy Latex Glove Masturbation, refers to a viral piece of misinformation stating that United States Senator J.D. Vance, currently the running mate of Donald Trump in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election, masturbated by humping two couch cushions into a latex glove and that he'd written about the experience in his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy. The story was made up by Twitter / X user @rickrudescalves in July 2024 and spread widely on social media, which led to news publications uncritically repeating the hoax story as fact.

Origin

On July 15th, 2024, Twitter user @rickrudescalves[1] tweeted, "can't say for sure but he might be the first vp pick to have admitted in a ny times bestseller to fucking an inside-out latex glove shoved between two couch cushions (vance, 𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘺, pp. 179-181)." The tweet gained over 1.8 million views, 2,600 retweets and 35,000 likes in one week (shown below).


rthr @rickrudescalves can't say for sure but he might be the first vp pick to have admitted in a ny times bestseller to f------ an inside-out latex glove shoved between two couch cushions (vance, hillbilly elegy, pp. 179-181) 3:58 PM Jul 15, 2024 1.8M Views

However, the story is completely made up and does not appear in Hillbilly Elegy. Twitter user @rickrudescalves[2] signaled that he was joking when he followed up the tweet with the Go On The Internet and Tell Lies meme (shown below).


rthr @rickrudescalves can't say for sure but he might be the first vp pick to have admitted in a ny times bestseller to f------ an inside-out latex glove shoved between two couch cushions (vance, hillbilly elegy, pp. 179-181) 3:58 PM Jul 15, 2024 1.8M Views 266 12.6K Post your reply rthr@rickrudescalves. Jul 15 32K 2.5K Reply

Spread

Though the story was made up, it spread widely on social media from people who were not aware it was a hoax. For example, on July 17th, 2024, Twitter user @wunderba666[3] unironically tweeted the story as a criticism of Vance, gaining over 20 retweets and 30 likes in five days (shown below, left).

On July 21st, Twitter user @MeachemDr[4] posted surprise upon learning the "fact" about Vance, gaining over 50 retweets and 200 likes in one day (shown below, right). On July 16th, the blog intomore[5] posted about the story as though it were factual.


DTobias @wunderba666 On pages 179-81 Hillbilly Elegy, JD Vance talks about f------ an inside out latex glove between two couch cushions. I'm so glad that this is coming from the guy who claims he's all about family values. 9:20 PM Jul 17, 2024 1,953 Views Meacham CC @MeachamDr Why am I just finding out now that JD Vance f---- sofas? 12:16 PM Jul 21, 2024 8,105 Views

The story then led to memes and pranks on social media. On July 18th, 2024, an ad for "JD Vance's used couch" appeared on Craigslist,[6] referencing the story (shown below, left). On July 19th, Redditor orbitalaction posted a GIF from It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia of Frank Reynolds emerging naked from a couch, joking that it's what emerged from Vance's couch after nine months. The joke gained over 400 points in /r/politicalhumor[7] in three days (shown below, right).


reply favorite hide flag Posted 4 days ago share JD VANCE'S USED COUCH!!! - $179 TOS condit crypto Used, but only ever sensually this flirty little couch still has plenty of love left in it altho I got out what I could. For more details search “Hillbilly Elegy pages 179-181 couch" r/PoliticalHumor 3 days ago orbitalaction 9 months after JD Vance f'ed the couch 415 13 Share GIF ...

AP Story / Retraction

On July 24th, 2024, the AP posted its own debunking of the claim, linking to a PDF of the book so that users could search for themselves if the story appeared in Hillbilly Elegy. However, they retracted the story because, according to a spokesperson, it "didn't go through our standard editing process." The retraction led to more jokes about the rumor being real.

Doctored Page

On July 25th, an image circulated online purporting to show that Vance wrote the "couch cushion story" on page 180 of the first edition hardcover release of Hillbilly Elegy (shown below).


180 J.D. Vance historic buildings were being converted into new restaurants and bars, and even the worst neighborhoods seemed to be undergoing significant revitalization. Not long after I moved to Columbus, one of my best friends began working as the promotions director for a local radio station, so I always knew what was happening around town and always had an in to the city's best events, from local festivals to VIP seating for the annual fireworks show. In many ways, college was very familiar. I made a lot of new friends, but virtually all of them were from southwest Ohio. My six roommates included five graduates of Middletown High School and one graduate of Edgewood High School in nearby Trenton They were a little younger (the Marine Corps had aged me past the age of the typical freshman), but I knew most of them from back home My closest friends had already graduated or were about to, but many stayed in Columbus after graduation. Though I didn't know it, I was witnessing a phenomenon that social scientists call "brain drain" people who are able to leave struggling cities often do, and when they find a new home with educational and work opportunities, they stay there. Years later, I looked at my wedding party of six groomsmen and realized that every single one of them had, like me, f----- a couch. All of us had found ourselves beheld by the eroticism of two cushions, side-by-side, with that lush, inviting valley between. We all knew how to respect one too: With a rubber glove and any lubricant you had on hand. All of us were lonely at some point, pushed away by the women in our lives. It was our outlet and an unspoken-yet-open secret. To want for a couch is to be, and to lay with one as one does? It is a rite of passage into the chambers of manhood. By the time I started at Ohio State, the Marine Corps had instilled in me an incredible sense of invincibility. I'd go to classes, do my homework, study at the library, and make it home in time to drink well past midnight with my buddies, then wake up early to go running My schedule was intense, but everything that had made

Know Your Meme determined that the page is a hoax. CUNY Baruch College hosts a PDF of the 1st edition of Hillbilly Elegy, and in that PDF, the relevant passage actually reads:

Years later, I looked at my wedding party of six groomsmen and realized that every single one of them had, like me, grown up in a small Ohio town before leaving for Ohio State. To a man, all of them had found careers outside of their hometowns, and none of them had any interest in ever going back.


180 J.D. VANCE historic buildings were being converted into new restaurants and bars, and even the worst neighborhoods seemed to be undergoing significant revitalization. Not long after I moved to Columbus, one of my best friends began working as the promotions director for a local radio station, so I always knew what was happening around town and always had an in to the city's best events, from local festivals to VIP seating for the annual fireworks show. In many ways, college was very familiar. I made a lot of new friends, but virtually all of them were from southwest Ohio. My six roommates included five graduates of Middletown High School and one graduate of Edgewood High School in nearby Trenton. They were a little younger (the Marine Corps had aged me past the age of the typical freshman), but I knew most of them from back home. My closest friends had already graduated or were about to, but many stayed in Columbus after graduation. Though I didn't know it, I was witnessing a phenomenon that social scientists call "brain drain"-people who are able to leave struggling cities often do, and when they find a new home with educational and work opportunities, they stay there. Years later, I looked at my wedding party of six groomsmen and realized that every single one of them had, like me, grown up: in a small Ohio town before leaving for Ohio State. To a man, all of them had found careers outside of their hometowns, and none of them had any interest in ever going back. By the time I started at Ohio State, the Marine Corps had in- stilled in me an incredible sense of invincibility. I'd go to classes, do my homework, study at the library, and make it home in time to drink well past midnight with my buddies, then wake up early to go running. My schedule was intense, but everything that had made me fear the independent college life when I was

This is consistent with a photograph purportedly of page 180 of the first edition hardcover version of Hillbilly Elegy posted by Twitter user @Kifillang.


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The doctored page appears to come from TikTok and Twitter user @FalconryFinance, who posted a video reading the doctored page on July 24th. He later admitted on Twitter that he had edited the page to include the passage.

@falconryfinance Replying to @andrewrhodes04 #greenscreen ♬ original sound – UAE Exotic Falconry & Finance

On July 26th, 2024, Twitter users discovered a February 2024 moment when Vance tweeted a screenshot of a woman getting humped by a dolphin. In his screenshot, the words "woman" and "dolphin" are in bold letters, indicating that they were searched on Twitter. This led to further jokes that Vance was into dolphin sex.

Various Examples


The Blessed Madonna @Blessed_Madonna Look—if my beloved governor of Kentucky, Andy Beshear who is a SAINT becomes VP and defeats JD Vance's carpetbagging, wanna be out the holler fugazi ass? We will burn every couch in the commonwealth in celebration. II GIF ALT 8:56 PM Jul 21, 2024 11.8K Views shelby @thetrueshelby Why didn't y'all tell me that @JDVance1 is a sofa f-----?!? rthr @rickrudescalves. Follow X can't say for sure but he might be the first vp pick to have admitted in a ny times bestseller to f------ an inside-out latex glove shoved between two couch cushions (vance, hillbilly elegy, pp. 179-181) 3:58 PM Jul 15, 2024 . 24.6K Reply ↑ Share 1:07 PM ⚫ Jul 21, 2024 37.8K Views Rep. Jack Kimble @RepJackKimble Republicans who are complaining about JD Vance's wife need to understand the simple way of life he came from. According to Hillbilly Elegy, his prom date was a latex glove between two couch cushions. He has upped his game considerably 4:27 PM Jul 21, 2024 5,596 Views Conspiratorial Templates @mynamehear I love that the only story anyone knows about JD Vance is that he f----- a rubber glove shoved between two couch cushions, and he's such a huge gomer no one even cares if it's true we're all just rolling with it. 9:12 AM ⚫ Jul 22, 2024 2,875 Views WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T GOOGLE JD VANCE COUCH CUSHION &13 Thip.com WORST MISTAKE OF MY LIFE JP Danse @jpactual77 Wait a minute here, JD Vance f----- a couch? Let me rephrase that. JD Vance F----- A COUCH, and actually told people? Republicans man, what the f--- is going on with those people? 11:15 PM ⚫ Jul 21, 2024 245 Views

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External References

[1] Twitter – rickrudescalves

[2] Twitter – rickrudescalves

[3] Twitter – wunderba666

[4] Twitter – MeachemDR

[5] Intomore – JD Vance’s ultra-horny confession just came back to haunt him

[6] Craigslist – JD Vance's Used Couch

[7] Reddit – /r/politicalhumor

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I think this is the result you get when you're adopting socially conservative values without the braggadocio to back you up. If you don't just come out swinging at every second of every day, or if your words burn more like acid than they burn like fire, people are gonna see you as some kinda weirdo and have a field day with it. It's a fine line to walk and it needs a balance of self-awareness, shamelessness, and ability to never slow down that only a handful of people can actually adopt. Trump's good at that, and basically every politico worth their salt has been saying it for the last eight years.

Somewhat unrelatedly, I do kinda wonder about the significance of all this. My take is that people who'd believe that JD Vance would have actually admitted to fucking a couch are a bit too credulous to be trusted with politics, and the people who "well, the fact that anyone would believe it" are annoying at best. The fact that people chose "couchfucker" as the joke to make for Vance, or "Zodiac Killer" as the joke to make for Cruz, however, says something. It's just that it s says more about how people see them than how they actually are.

Personally I just sorta get the feeling that Vance is an opportunist who wants power and acclaim, but got railroaded by techno-freaks and is starting to flounder as he's torn between a variety of camps and thus got shunted into a political Uncanny Valley.

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